Lucy quotes from 7th Heaven

Lucy

You told your principal that I have a learning disability, Simon doesn't talk, Matt lives in his car, Dad lost his job and Mom drinks? And how am I responsible for this?

Ruthie

Your friend Mike. He said that if people felt sorry for us, then they'd stop gossiping about Mary so that's what I did to make people feel sorry for us.

Lucy

Well, you made your principal feel sorry for us.

Ruthie

No, just like Mike said, I told someone in authority, someone people listen to. Mrs. McCool will tell other people. It'll work.

Lucy

I notice that you didn't tell your principal that you have any problems.

Ruthie

My problem is that I have you guys for a family!

[to Lucy] Mmm, look at you. You look like you need a man.

Ruthie

I think he just called you a bad word. A really, really, bad word.

Hey, look, the little one knows what I called her sister, but the sister don't know. Or she know what true?

Lucy

She know what true? Look, you arrogant little...what are you, a pimp? Get away from me.

Lucy

[to the manager] Do something.

Like what?

Lucy

Like, get that guy out of here.

He didn't hurt you.

Lucy

He slapped me.

From the looks of you, it couldn't have hurt.

Ruthie

What's a pimp?

Lucy

It's a guy who hates woman.

Lucy

Simon, your friend called me a name and slapped me on the butt in the record store.

Simon

What, you mean Norton? No way, he was just kidding around. Believe me, he couldn't have been serious.

Lucy

Simon, he slapped me!

Simon

He didn't hurt you, did he?

Lucy

Yes, he hurt me! He humiliated me, and that hurt... a lot!

Simon

Well, what do you want me to do about it?

Lucy

I want you to understand that I am not a punching bag. I am not a trash can that guys can throw their filthy thoughts or words into. I'm a person, Simon. I'm your sister. Do something.

Lucy

Your mother spoke to me.

What? That's great! She spoke? That's unbelievable!

Lucy

She told me she wants you to put her in an institution. It's not great!

Why would my mom want that?

Lucy

I think the reason she hasn't been talking is because she thought that not talking to you would drive you away or make you put her away.

I don't understand.

Lucy

I think your mom blames herself for your suicide attempt and your father's death.

She said that?

Lucy

She didn't have to. A couple years ago, a friend of mine died in a car accident. She was on her way to pick me up, and the next thing I knew, she was dead, and her sister was in the hospital. I was convinced that the accident was all my fault. I was so sure that the accident was all my fault, I couldn't even bring myself to go to her funeral. I kept thinking that if she hadn't been on her way to pick me up, she'd still be alive. I felt so guilty. To be honest, even today, I still feel a little guilty.

What are you getting at?

Lucy

If my friend were alive, the one thing I would want her to hear from her is forgiveness. I would want her to tell me that it was not my fault. Maybe that's selfish, I don't know. And I know that my experience is nothing compared to what you and your mom have been through, but guilt is guilt, and guilt is a very powerful thing.

Lucy

I got all this fun senior stuff coming up: Valentine's, Senior Prom, Graduation. I want a guy for all that.

Eric

What are you going to do while you wait for the guy?

Lucy

Well, I got classes, friends, family, Habitat for Humanity...

Eric

Right. Luce, you got a life with or without a guy. When you do get a guy, he'll be the luckiest guy in the world because he's got you.

Lucy

Thanks.

Annie

I wonder who Robbie could be going out with.

Ruthie

Whoever it is, it's not Mary.

Eric

But this is a good thing, right?

Simon

I think it was a good thing until we started liking him, now I'm not so sure.

Lucy

So what are we going to do?

Eric

There's nothing I think we can do.

Annie

There's plenty we can do. We're Camdens.

You wouldn't understand. You have a mother. A real mother. Sometimes, I wish I had a real mother, too, not someone who would rather be my friend than my mother. Friends, I have. People to go to parties and dances with, I have. A mother, I don't have and haven't had since my parents got divorced. That's when my mother decided that she didn't want to be a mother anymore.

Lucy

I had no idea you felt this way. I thought you liked having a mother who was hip and cool and un-motherlike.

What's so hip and cool about being locked in some stranger's bathroom while your mother flirts and carries on with some guy who's too old for us and too young for her? Welcome to the dark side of having a hip and cool mom.

Lucy

Why are you set against dad helping Serena?

Annie

I don't wanna talk about it.

Lucy

I know I am only 18 and still your child, but I would be grateful if you would treat me like a friend and a woman in this situation and honestly tell me what's going on.

Annie

I'd like to, but I can't.

Lucy

Why? Because you're wrong.

Annie

Well, helping people can be complicated. That's why your dad is always warning us to be harmless instead of helpful.

Lucy

I should pay attention to that. It's probably one of the lessons I have to learn over and over.

Annie

When you're older, you and I will be adult friends and we can talk about everything, but not yet.

Lucy

That's fine with me. Just please know I am always on your side.

Eric

Engaged?

Lucy

Yes. I'm engaged. Jeremy and I are in love and we're gonna get married.

Eric

This isn't like you. You've smart. You're levelheaded.

Lucy

I am smart and levelheaded, so can't you trust that I'm making the right choice with my life? You and Mom weren't much older than I am when you got engaged and look how you guys turned out. And you didn't have a scholarship or any money when you moved back East. Everything I want to do is possible, and you know that. And that's what's killing you because you know I will make this work with Jeremy and you don't want me to. You want me to stay here at home until you're ready for me to leave. I'm sorry, but I'm ready to leave now. I love you and Mom, but I love Jeremy too.

Mary

We want you to find us boyfriends.

Lucy

Husbands, even.

Eric

I beg your pardon?

Lucy

We want you and Mom to find us someone to love. We want to get married...eventually.

Eric

Marriage is a bond made by two people who share a very deep and personal connection. For the two of you to ask me to choose someone with whom I think you could share that connection is...well, that's...nuts. I'm not a dating service. I'm your father and a minister.

Mary

Scared?

Eric

No, I'm not scared. I just... I think it's not up to me to stir you to the right person. It's up to God. When the time's right, the right guy will come along, for the both of you. You just have to be patient.

Lucy

(to Mary) Yep, he's scared.

Eric

You left home. You went to New York. You moved in with Jeremy and his family and without warning, boom, you were back on our doorstep. We'd like to know what happened.

Lucy

You know, it was a bad goodbye, a long terrible flight and I don't feel like talking about it.

Eric

What do you mean by "bad goodbye?"

Lucy

I am 18! I am an adult, I don't feel like talking about it!

Lucy

I don't feel like having dinner with everyone. I really don't feel like being around people, so I'm just gonna go pick up something. Is that a problem?

Eric

You know, I pulled a lot of strings to get you into Cobell Seminary. Are you planning on going back to New York and to Cobell?

Lucy

Isn't it enough that I'm not getting married? Do you want me to tell you I'm not going to college in New York? Is that what you want, more bad news? Okay, fine, I'm not going to Cobell! Are you happy? [storms out in tears]

Matt

Well, it looks like not only is Lucy back, she's crying just the good old days. Some things never change, huh?

Lucy

When you marry someone, you marry their family, and I didn't marry Jeremy because I didn't marry his family.

Annie

So you quit school, and came home.

Lucy

Maybe I'm not cut out for the ministry.

Annie

Because?

Lucy

Because his family teased me relentlessly for being a goody-good-two-shoes. They called me Mother Teresa.

Annie

She was a great woman.

Lucy

I am not Mother Teresa. I offer what I said to Ruthie as proof. I should only hope to do one thing as great as any of the millions of things Mother Teresa ever did. They drink, they smoke pot, and they throw a lot of parties, and yet...I liked them. I don't approve of how they live their lives, but I liked them. I like everybody. They just didn't like me. I kinda got kicked out.

Annie

How could anyone tease my baby for being good?

Lucy

It's hardly a Camden world out there.

Ruthie

I just want to know what happened.

Lucy

The way you're always sneaking around, I'm surprised you don't know already. In fact, that's what your nickname should be. Sneaky. Not Snooky, but Sneaky.

Ruthie

I'm not sneaky!

Lucy

Yes, you are, and I think Robbie was trying to tell you that in a nice way.

Ruthie

No he wasn't! He doesn't think I'm sneaky, he was teasing me.

Lucy

Yeah, but why do you think he was teasing you? Maybe he was trying to point something out to you. Good night, Sneaky! [turns over and goes to sleep; Ruthie's eyes fill with tears]